At school all the cool kids were slouchers. No one wanted to be seen sitting up straight, paying attention or, heaven forbid...

Both sexes know men prefer a direct approach from woman, but is it just because men can't read the signs? Men and women's attitudes to relationships have become remarkably similar -- when...

Here are a few pieces of psychobabble I currently love to hate:

We are surprisingly poor at working out what others think of us. Experiments suggest we rarely do better than chance at rating how likeable, intelligent or attractive others think we are.

We quickly sense how others view us and play up to these expectations. A good exercise for learning about yourself is to think about how other people might view you in different ways. Consider how your family, your work colleagues or your partner...

The stories we weave about our mental processes are logically appealing but fatally flawed more often than we'd like to think. We all have intuitive theories about how our own and other people's minds work. Unfortunately psychological research...

Classic social psychology study explores our yearning to bask in the reflected glory of successful others. Here in England we have a strange tradition called 'test cricket'. It's a ridiculous game that goes on for five days, stops for tea and bad...

New psychology research demonstrates a direct effect of snack food adverts on increased consumption for both adults and children. Nowadays the word 'obesity' is rarely seen in print without its partner-in-crime, 'epidemic'. The developed world seems...

Does mimicking other people's body language really make them like us? Self-help books, persuasion manuals and glossy magazine articles often advise that mimicking body language can increase how much others like us. But is it really true that mimicry...